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Tunnels

Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams

Gordon, Roderick and Williams, Brian. Tunnels. Chicken House. New York. 2007.

Tunnels is the first book in the Tunnels Trilogy, by Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams. For it’s very mysterious qualities, Tunnels has become an international bestseller and continues to be an extremely loved trilogy across America and the entire globe.

Tunnels takes place in the future and starts out with a young family - a mother, Laurie, father, James, and son, Mitch. There is a tortuous war going on, but luckily the Robersons (Laurie, James, and Mitch) have a safe and sound underground tunnel system that keeps not only their family, but practically their whole neighborhood safe.

James is one day sent off to war and Laurie and Mitch are pretty much left to die. Laurie spends her days depressed, spacing out in one of the many small rooms in the tunnel system. Mitch is very sick of sitting around. He creates a small meeting that is held on Sunday nights where anyone staying in the tunnels could attend. The tunnel people mostly plotted how they could end the war in a peaceful way. Though it was never told what their plan was.

Years pass and so does Mitch’s mother, Laurie. Mitch makes it his life goal to get out of the tunnels, where he’s been living for fourteen years of his life, and end this horrible war that killed both his mother and most likely his father. He and the rest of the tunnel people rebell and exit the tunnels to gather more people to stop the war with their master plan that they have been working on for years now.

Readers and critics say, Roderick Gordon and Brian Williams ended Tunnels pretty abruptly, but the fact that there are more books in the trilogy makes up for everything. Everybody across the globe is anticipating the release of the next books.

4 out of 5 stars

Contributed by M. Stood

March 11th, 2013